Baked Lamb and Yogurt (Albanian Name: Tavë Kosi)

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs lamb
• 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
• 2 tablespoons rice
• salt and pepper

For Yogurt sauce

• 1 tablespoon flour
• 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
• 2 lbs yogurt
• 5 eggs
• salt and pepper

Directions

1. 1

   Cooking Instructions:

2. 2

   Cut meat in 4 serving pieces, sprinkle each piece with salt and pepper, and bake in a moderately-heated oven with half the butter, sprinkling the meat with its gravy now and then. When meat is half-baked, add rice; remove the baking pan from the oven and leave it aside while you prepare the yogurt sauce:.

3. 3

   Sauté flour in butter until mixed thoroughly. Mix yogurt with salt, pepper and eggs until a uniform mixture is obtained, and finally stir in the flour. Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; sauté it with the meat pieces and bake at 375 degrees F for about 45 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve hot.